It was New Year’s Eve and Victorians were (rightly) preparing to celebrate their hard earned ‘freedom’.
After a debilitating year during which Victorians endured one of the harshest lockdowns in the world – courtesy of the Victorian Government’s ineptitude in handling hotel quarantine – many Victorians had organised a modest home party or a simple get away into neighbouring states.
The bungling of hotel quarantine was defined by the Federal Treasurer as “the costliest public policy failure in the history of the Commonwealth”.
Consequently, hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost, small businesses had been mauled and individual savings raped. And Government debt was off the charts.